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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [PATCHSET v2 0/3] io_uring CQ ring backpressure
Date: Wed,  6 Nov 2019 16:53:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Currently we drop completion events, if the CQ ring is full. That's fine
for requests with bounded completion times, but it may make it harder to
use io_uring with networked IO where request completion times are
generally unbounded. Or with POLL, for example, which is also unbounded.

This patch adds IORING_SETUP_CQ_NODROP, which changes the behavior a bit
for CQ ring overflows. First of all, it doesn't overflow the ring, it
simply stores backlog of completions that we weren't able to put into
the CQ ring. To prevent the backlog from growing indefinitely, if the
backlog is non-empty, we apply back pressure on IO submissions. Any
attempt to submit new IO with a non-empty backlog will get an -EBUSY
return from the kernel.

I think that makes for a pretty sane API in terms of how the application
can handle it. With CQ_NODROP enabled, we'll never drop a completion
event, but we'll also not allow submissions with a completion backlog.

Changes since v1:

- Drop the cqe_drop structure and allocation, simply use the io_kiocb
  for the overflow backlog
- Rebase on top of Pavel's series which made this cleaner
- Add prep patch for the fill/add CQ handler changes

 fs/io_uring.c                 | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h |   1 +
 2 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe



             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-06 23:53 Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-11-06 23:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] io_uring: make io_cqring_events() take 'ctx' as argument Jens Axboe
2019-11-06 23:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] io_uring: pass in io_kiocb to fill/add CQ handlers Jens Axboe
2019-11-07  9:53   ` Pavel Begunkov
2019-11-07 13:16     ` Jens Axboe
2019-11-06 23:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] io_uring: add support for backlogged CQ ring Jens Axboe

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